Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (born Sept. 3, 1921 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Polish-, Belgian- and American-educated industrial engineer with 50 patents to his credit, and a lexicographer and amateur historian.
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[edit] World War II
He left Warsaw, Poland, in December 1939. He was arrested in Dukla by Ukrainians in the service of the German Gestapo and sent successively to German concentration camps in Barwinek, Krosno, Jasło, Tarnów, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), and in 1940, in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen.
In 1945, Pogonowski began on the Brandenburg Death March from Sachsenhausen, but escaped.
[edit] Engineer
His career has included academia and practical work in the U.S. petroleum industry.
He studied engineering, and in 1954 graduated in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University: Institute Superieur de Commerce, St. Ignace in Antwerp, Belgium.
He then taught descriptive geometry at the University of Tennessee, and in 1955 graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Upon graduation he worked for Shell Oil Company, and then worked starting in 1960 for Texaco Research and Development as a Project Engineer.
[edit] Patents
He authored a total of 50 American and foreign patents on marine structures for the petroleum industry.
[edit] Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering
During later years he also taught courses on marine structures of the petroleum industry in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as Adjunct Professor in the College of Civil Engineering.
[edit] Books
- Poland: A Historical Atlas, revised edition, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1989.
- The Jews in Poland: A Documentary History: the Rise of [the] Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1993.
- Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, 3 volumes, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1997.
- Publications [edit]
· Świat po amerykańsku, Fundacja 'Nasza Przyszłość', 2004, · HERALDYKA - Heraldry, Juliusz Ostrowski, wyd. CD-ROM, 2002, · Poland - An Illustrated History, Hippocrene Books, 2000, (recommendation Z. Brzezińskiego), · Jews in Poland - A Documentary History, Hippocrene Books, 1998, (opinions below) · Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, 1997, · Historyczny Atlas Polski, Wydawnictwo Baran i Suszczyński, 1995, · Poland - A Historical Atlas, Hippocrene Books, 1987, · Polish-English Standard Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, 1985, Practical Polish-English Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, 1981,
Opinions on:
JEWS IN POLAND: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY By Iwo Cypian Pogonowski
“Mr. Pogonowski’s colorful compendium fills a very definite need. It is especially welcome on three counts. First it covers a wide span of history, from the earliest times to 1991. Second, among other things, it contains a mass of documentary material that is not readily available in English. Third, an extensive collection of maps and prints enlivens the body of detailed information, bringing it within the reach of wide audience. I learned much from reading the book. It will be a rare reader who does not do the same.” -Professor Norman Davies, Oxford University
“The fact that today over ninety percent of Ashkenazic Jews trace their origins to the historical lands of the old Polish Commonwealth testifies to the importance of the Polish chapter of the Jewish history. Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski’s Jews In Poland: A Documentary History gives full documentation to this historic truth and places it in the permanent record.” -Józef Gierowski, Professor of History and former President of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków
“Pogonowski shows us the wealth of the still living legacy of Polish and Lithuanian Jews carried by their descendants in the Diaspora and the State of Israel. This legacy represents an important element of the modern European and world culture.” -Aleksander Gieysztor, Professor of History and President of the Polish Academy of Sciences
“The need for a good historical atlas describing the history of the Jews in Poland has long been recognized. This carefully researched and well drawn volume will enable students and the lay public to better understand the complex problems of the Polish-Jewish past and of Polish-Jewish relations.” -Anthony Polonsky, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Professor of Jewish History at Brandeis University
„The book endeavors to ‘encompass’ Jews within the Polish discourse, a rarity in American scholarship and in the discourse about Jews. While Poles have often been encompassed within the Jewish discourse (and within other discourses), the other way around has never been attempted. This pioneering attempt, as well as the sheer volume of documentation gathered in this volume, make Pogonowski’s opus remarkable and unusual.” -M. K. Dziewanowski, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; author of War at Any Price (1990)
“Even though Hitler selected Poland as the principal slaughter house for the “final solution”…, it must never be mistakenly believed that the Holocaust was perpetrated by Poles. Nor must it be ignored that three million Poles perished at German hands. ..The materials collected in this volume bring to life some of these tragedies, but also record of good will and exemplary heroism.” -Richard Pipes, Professor of History at the Harvard University, former Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in the National Security Council, 1981-1982
